Good account here from Chris Littlefield, head of the local Nature Conservancy chapter, of finding a stranded Kemp's ridley sea turtle on the beach at Old Harbor, Block Island.

Long Island Sound fishermen, the Norwalk Maritime Aquarium wants to hear your fishing stories and see your fishing pictures, for a new exhibit. "As part of the new exhibit, we plan to include an area where we'll post stories, photographs and videos...

Anybody else bummed by all the DOT tree cutting along the Merritt Parkway? The Merritt Parkway Conservancy is. Here's the quote of the day: "We're not deforesting the area. We're removing undesirable trees ..." From Connecticut Environmental...

A big, opportunistic seal -- a gray seal, maybe -- has been taking fish from fishing lines east of New Haven.

Honestly, it's the noise of leaf blowers that bothers me more than their use fossil fuels. Now, at 2 p.m. on a warm and cloudy Saturday afternoon, one of only two days a week I don't spend in the office, a lawn crew with several leaf blowers is blowing...